I sold an item (about £100 and heavy, so expensive postage) Two days after it sold at auction the buyer messages to say they've changed their mind and want a refund. I explained that I had already sent it by post . Buyer then complains to ebay that item doesn't work so ebay refunds them despite clearly being a nonsense (it hadn't even arrived yet!) No reduction in ebay fees Sellers get no protection on ebay
I'm a private seller and although the changes don't come in for a month I've already started taking off items I'm selling for under a fiver. Its just getting too much of a pain. And having to pay postage out of our own pocket , to then wait potentially a couple of weeks to get that money back! I'd love to know how much interest Ebay are going to be making on all this money they will be holding on to????
I never put anything (sell my old books) on less than a fiver, generally as the post takes most of that. If the buyer protection is added on then it is going to be a small addition to the buyer's cost (I don't want to swallow that into the price as well as it would mean making peanuts for many really cheap items)
Are they expecting everything to be tracked irrespective of value? That's nonsense, as a private seller (and yes I am not a business) that will almost double my shipping costs on items under £20. Anything over £20 I almost always send Royal Mail Tracked. And bringing back fees by the backdoor, what was the point of getting rid of them!
Key problem is the postage. I’m a regular seller and I’d say -1 in 20 packages aren’t scanned on delivery. Luckily I’ve been paid and the person has been honest and left positive feedback or hasn’t tried to take advantage. Payment after delivery will be a nightmare in these scenarios and is putting huge power onto delivery companies whether they realise it or not
That's exactly what I was going to point out as one of the issues. It doesn't matter whether it's sent via courier or Royal Mail, a good percentage of items never get scanned on delivery, so does that mean the sellers won't ever get their money? Or maybe ebay will have you jumping through hoops to get that money? I really don't think they've thought this through. If I order anything online from any business, I have to pay for that item before they will even post it to me. I don't get to say to them "I'll pay for it when it's delivered".
@@CyberCurtainTwitcher - UK Private sellers WILL be paid if they don't use tracked shipping, except they have to wait 14 days for payment after the order date. I quote UK eBay (may they rot in Hell): "For untracked deliveries, or tracked deliveries with no delivery confirmation, the seller will receive payment 14 days from the order date."
Private sellers have never had coupons, multiple items etc etc. Those tools have only ever been available to those with a shop. And it went from 1000 free listings a month to 300 a month when it went free to sell. It’s going to be the lower priced items that will become just pointless to sell, 4% plus 75p plus having to use a tracked postage service or it’s a crap shoot wether or not you get your money. Interesting times ahead. EBay really did this to themselves when the selling fees just constantly increased to a point where a lot of folks just stopped selling and Vinted and FB Marketplace made more sense. Happens to every business with a perceived monopoly, they think they can increase profits by just charging more and more and then are surprised when they get out manoeuvred by a new entrant.
@@jackiesmithsmetaldetecting And private sellers do have the % discount offers currently.....soon to go I believe. But yes to the multiple item option too!
@@jamesmonington I thought this James. Ironically I got a coupon applied over Christmas/ new year bank holiday for first time (iv been selling regularly 4 years) and have had 50 plus followers for 3 years. I thought odd at time but the clearly applied just so they can add it as usp to business accounts lol
In a sense lower priced items should be pointless to sell. It’s terrible for environment to be sending cheap shit hundreds of miles. I do this myself but when I have money and when I was a kid I only used eBay for niche collection pieces and hard to get items! There is a real lack of these now especially in things like retro Nintendo games and Pokemon where everyone thinks they sitting on a gold mine and try selling everything at completely unrealistic price points! I can only think the price points are driven by overseas buyers as if I ever sell a game or card for £50 plus that’s retro nearly always goes to us/ Canada, Germany / France / Spain ,Australia or Japan. Do others find this?
if ebay are losing ground to vinted, how is messing around with fee structure going to gain market share? It looks like they have run out of ideas and are blindly copying
Just means they're not competing on that field. I've heard so many private sellers tell me stories about getting caught out by not understanding eBay's fees including cost of postage. They end up selling items at a loss and not using the platform again. It's just more transparent for the inexperienced sellers.
@@TheLiverpoolDelta happened to me bud took me 2-3 months to get on top of it and if they put it back to a shambles then I'll just sell on vinted so ebay lose If I am looking to buy on ebay and it's a business seller then we all know most have a vinted account and most sell cheaper on vinted so why would I buy on ebay It's the business seller selling cheaper on another platform that's affecting ebay not the private seller
@@magnets1000 it's the fees creep that's really done it I think. £1.40 to sell something for a tenner, then postage on top... plus the fraud, the no neg feedback for buyers. With no competition for years it lost its way and it's roots. It stopped being 'fun' to sell a good decade ago.
@@jamesmoningtonyou hit the nail on the head, no negative feedback for buyers, sellers have no protection at all from people that just use eBay to buy.
It is painful selling on ebay. They mess with their sellers every way they can. They have an unnecessarily complicated fee structure. It could be SO simple!
You hit the nail on the head. ebay is reactionary. They are constantly making changes because they can't come up with their own ideas. More fees just repackaged as something they have always done.
eBay wants to be Amazon at the same time as only doing a fraction of the work Amazon does. I'll be taking my listings down before the 4th of Feb .. I may come back if and when eBay sorts themselves out.
I would also like to point out that genuine private sellers are not going out buying cheaply from warehouses, charity shops, car boots, etc, choosing what they know will sell well and make the most profit. We are selling our own belongings, that we have paid full price for, and sell effectively for peanuts compared to what we paid and have to try to compete with businesses who can sell cheaper, have thousands of reviews, probably cheaper postage, etc. I appreciate some people aren't genuine and try to cheat the system but most of us have morals/don't want to court trouble and do not! That said... THANK YOU for this video. I did get the eBay email but hadn't realised I would need to do this calculation to add on the buyer fees in order to try to be competitive.
Private sellers will not get paid until proof of delivery therfore thet will need to send tracked increasing the cost a lot of private sellers will just not bother.
Private sellers WILL be paid if they don't use tracked shipping, except they have to wait 14 days for payment after the order date. I quote eBay (may they rot in Hell): "For untracked deliveries, or tracked deliveries with no delivery confirmation, the seller will receive payment 14 days from the order date."
it wont be worth selling anything under £10.00- £15.00 as you will have to send it tracked and some items are not worth it with postage costs as the buyer will just say it has not arrived. could this be the end for lower cost items
@@MISSDELUCA Why should a buyer fee bother genuine private sellers? The only ones who will be affected is resellers running a business and pretending to be private.
TO REPEAT MYSELF: UK Private sellers WILL be paid if they don't use tracked shipping, except they have to wait 14 days for payment after the order date. I quote UK eBay (may they rot in Hell): "For untracked deliveries, or tracked deliveries with no delivery confirmation, the seller will receive payment 14 days from the order date."
I use royal mail tracked 48 that comes with £150 compensation for my customers so why do they need "buyer protection" 🤔? It should be offered as an option for buyers. EBay are having their cake and eating it, being far to greedy!
Why on earth can ebay not leave things alone…. they have to continually make change to things. You just get use to a way of working, then it’s altered. It’s hard enough already trying get to grips with there way of working….. This latest idea of making payment to private sellers available after delivery may well be a step to far….. I will not be listing from its introduction, in fact not from a fortnight before. Boycott selling on eBay….. they will soon get the message.
I knew there would be a scam looming once the free to sell started. Only a fool would pay postage up front and send goods without having already received payment. What will happen in the case of selling items that are only collect in person please?
Buyer protection fees for business sellers coming soon - closely followed by seller protection fees and protection from eBay fees - sounds like a modern day protection racket 😎
@blinkinflip im a business account i so,d a 140 item and i get charged 22 for fees then they randomly took another 10 i contact their customer support and i get left on read 😂
Cheers for sharing George. I knew that “free to sell for private sellers” would come at a price. The new policy of having to wait until 2 days after delivery for payment is insane 😡 😢
As a private seller,I thought it would change because ebay not making any money from us with all been free.Have noticed my sales have dramatically slowed since. I think because the ebay algorithm put business sellers items as priority,because Ebay benefit.
I also think it's the promoted/ sponsored listings. The % you pay for that can be variable daily or set for you at your convenience. There was 0% fees as a trial, and I only got more views and almost no sales, in bloody December before Xmas. That shouldn't have happened, they should have deactivated the button that hides 30% of your listings as a punishment for not paying extra to promote.
Has a private seller my email says we will have to wait 14 days for payment, or when buyer says received it, my post office rarely click on there delivered unless you pay a recordered delivery
Send tracked 48 I think a lot of it is royal mail having to pay lots in compo to sellers due to scam buyers. They buy second first class and claim item hasn’t arrived when it has. It’s why I moved all things to tracked 48 around 12 months ago. Also had added advantage that if you buy and get qr code that you can’t mess up address as you know longer have to write it on package. We code gets scanned prints another qr code that is stuck to the parcel at parcel shop. So eliminated human error as well as scams!
@@jackgolding427 that only works if you're selling items worth at least £10. Who is going to pay £4+ for tracking and buyer protection on something that's only worth a couple of quid?
Also, what does this Buyer Protection Fee actually do? Does this mean ebay will payout to buyers for lost packages instead of the seller? Somehow I don't think so...the seller will have to pay out and ebay will just pcoket all of these "protection" fees for doing nothing at all.
Private sellers don't have access to coupons, discounts, etc, anyway! As a private seller myself, I am a single mum with now adult children. I am in the process of downsizing so am selling decades worth of clutter in my house in order to reduce my mortgage. Many private sellers don't have spare cash, that's why they sell their belongings and often get far less for them that the post office do (and, until recently, Ebay through fees). Their fee removal was helpful and welcome but now they are making us fork out for postage and packing without having the money in advance to pay for it. We will have to track sales to make sure we actually get the money. It isn't right or fair. I appreciate that some private sellers may abuse the system but most of us don't. We genuinely need the money and this move by eBay is treating us like business sellers with more potential for loss and having to fork out expenses before we have the money to cover those. It's just wrong.
If you're genuinely selling unwanted personal items then you're not really in competition with anyone else and so an extra quid on your item won't make much difference - take the quid off your asking price.
Totally agree. I suspect that a lot of private sellers, like yerself and me, sell personal items to top up any low or meagre income they may have. I am very likely NOT to have any available personal funds available to pay in advance for the postage of any sold item myself, so, I suspect that e-bay are going to LOSE a LOT of sellers in February...likely never to return? Not to vinted either, which, by all accounts, sounds like a race to the bottom of the pile?
Been with ebay since 2000. It used to be fun & easy & was a bonus to be able to sell my unwanted/ no longer used items with relative ease, as well as always being able to find something to buy aswell. Now, for me, I doubt any of my clearouts will make it to ebay because whats the point? The time listing, photos etc then if it sells the packing & post drop only to have to hope it gets scanned by the postie the other end before receiving payment (up to 14 days), which we all know how the scammers love to say theyve not received so the phone calls & emails bk & forth with ebay just seem too much effort. Ive decided to bootsale all my bits n bobs from now on.
I am beginning to hate ebay these days. I sell the odd bit from my collections basically to find other purchases. I sold an antique camera before Christmas and the money is on hold. Yet the item has been delivered and the buyer has left me positive feedback. When I asked where my money was, i got told you will have to wait until the buyer is happy with their purchase. Er I have positive feedback but I am still waiting for my money...
@Jewellerybybarrie This is happening to me now, they owe me £300, because Royal Mail hasn't scanned at least three items and updated the tracking, I can't get my money!
ebay should have kept it simple, it was a winning formula. inflated fees, no seller ability to leave feedback like the old days, people using other platforms now to buy and sell. i was going to go back online and start selling on ebay again but 4 years later, havent even bothered. I just use ebay to buy music.
Empty bottles? Booklets? Pants worn to holes? Shoes with animal hair inside? A tape recorder from the 90s? Fur coats for people in Antarctica? Skis? Winter sleds?
Right so for private sellers the buyer pays for the item, Ebay take a fee out of that and what's left goes to the seller ...so exactly the same as it was before except that now Ebay get to hold onto money for longer and also claim that it's "free to sell." Very cynical.
As a business seller who almost exclusively sells clothing I was over the moon with the no fees offer from Oct-Dec. Massively helped my business. But the reintroduction of fees has put a massive dent in my profit margins. Not to mention the £92 a month shop subscription that I have to pay (for which, by the way, I don't see what value I get for my money). These changes they've introduced seem to be nothing more than token gestures to appease business sellers. I would much prefer to sell my items on vinted. I list everything on both platforms but obviously get more sales on ebay. Wish it was the other way around
@ you can for like £35 a month I think it is. But I have 600+ listings most of the time as always buying new stock, so I would end up having to pay per listing every time they renew which I’m pretty sure would work out more than the current ship subscription I pay
Whilst I agree with your statement when it comes to businesses running off a private account (Ebay seems to be flushing them out with these new changes) - many private sellers, myself included, are selling stuff at low prices - DVDs for £2.99 or three paperback books for £5.95. The Buyer Protection Fee of 4% plus 0.75p makes it impossible to sell at these prices so we're priced out by Music Magpie, World of Books etc. There will be many private sellers who will close accounts and move to other platforms (Vinted, FB marketplace etc.) or simply sell stock as a job lot or shift it to charity shops.
And most of these "private sellers" don't declare their earnings to HMRC so pay no income tax on it either. This will change soon, a lot do not realise that since 31 Jan last year eBay (and Vinted etc) have been sending your sales data to HMRC. They will not care what account type you have, only that if you are trading unlawfully that you will owe income tax. It's coming, people just aren't aware of it yet.
Quite true, but it does help a little. For example 4% plus 75p on a tenner item is £1.15, whereas a business seller will pay a selling fee of around £1.70. So that gap has been cut from £1.70 to 55p on an example tenner item. Some of the businesses pretending to be private sellers will not have been around for every long and will give up when it's not all going their way.
@@dpw81 I'm not paying tax on my own belongings that I am selling at a loss. You need to stop accusing "most of these" "private sellers" of running some kind of reselling scam. I'm not trading unlawfully, I'm a private seller, and I'm not alone, with a huge collection of stuff to sell. The tax man can take a f**king hike! I paid tax on my wages before I bought the items and I'm not paying the tax man again.
I just cannot be bothered with either anymore. I’m looking forward to boot sales returning so I can off load my unwanted clothes and stuff there. It’s just been too many changes and too much confusion. I’m done with both of them. I actually deleted my Vinted account a few weeks ago so I would never be tempted to try again. Nope, bye bye, I’m done with both of them as a seller (of my own unwanted items).
I feel the same, sadly I don't have a car and I work every weekend morning so car booting my stuff is impossible. I'm currently putting everything on 99p auction and anything left on 3 February goes to/is collected by charity.
Morning George, thanks for the video. Im a private seller, never had access to coupons and sales options, so that is not a problem. Been selling for over 10 years.
I've had a private selling account since c 1999 for genuinely selling off personal stuff and not as a business. However, I dont recall ever being able to offer vouchers/discounts etc so it "being taken away" certainly wont affect me.
They’ve had the multiple quantity discount option for private sellers for quite some time. It would only show if you were selling more than one of the same item
Still won’t attract more casual sellers to eBay because they don’t want to cover the postage costs upfront. As a reseller it’s not really important to me. I don’t earn enough to “go legit” as a business I just sell a lot of decent value items to enable me to buy what I want.
Back in the day buying an selling were simple now with all the EBAY scams I wouldn’t go near the place, buying wise I go to Ali Express cheaper, same quality.
Wasn't the whole point of "zero private seller fees" to increase the active user base for both the benefit of private and business sellers? To me it just seems that they have undone all their good work from October 24 and will continue the active user decline they have been experiencing since 2018. They're still a big player, but they are slowing drowning.
I don't understand what the buyer protection fee pays for? Private sellers will have to pay for tracked mail making anything under £6 with zero profit for seller (Cost Of Item + Tracked Postage) so the buyer can say they never received their item tracked or not, This will be a huge boost for scammers on ebay.
If any longer term private sellers, who understand all the Ebay workings, are reading this please consider doing videos on RUclips. All the videos currently seem to be from business sellers so us private sellers can't get the info we need to help us. If I'm wrong on this and there are helpful videos from private sellers please let me know. Thanks.
I'm a part time private seller . I always charged royal mail second class to get the tracking number. What happen is , not always the post man scan the item when delivering, therefore Im not sure if the item was delivered, only when I get positive feedback or I don't get any complaints after a while that I assume that it was delivered, but now how this is going to work to get payed ???;!? How I'm going to get payed for that specific item that wasn't scanned ???!?! That's my worry !!!
Yes, I too post basic 2nd class as £3.75 is alot to add to a 2nd hand item, but is the least you can post most clothing for. Recently many items not scanned when delivered but 1 had feedback. So , will I never be paid for the non scanned items? Asked eBay but they chose to use AI to pretend to answer unrelated questions. It takes so long for anything to sell now anyway, I can't afford to pay to send and then NEVER receive payment. I ' ll get my pension soon so maybe I'll just donate my stuff to charity instead, as I don't have a car to do car boot sales. Great business model eBay!
@AchNastyMusic I'm having the same problem, I have sent all of my deliveries tracked but they're just not being scanned. So ebay won't give me any money.
eBay has been going down hill since it lost PayPal, as a buyer and a seller I am out after 22 years. It’s a clown show on their now, lots are leaving are have disappeared. Each change is to try to fix the exodus just make it worse.
Maybe time to return to places like Gumtree, as there really is no point at all selling anything on eBay. You won't make much and the government will be on your back wanting to know why your turnover figure is high. Your profit will not be.
Another thing worth mentioning is that many Private sellers will be paying their tax for the 1st time (or getting estimated tax bills through the post if they haven't self-assessed) Which could well mean people pulling out of reselling altogether.
Great news it’s what the govt want to stop, the decimation of the high street and it’s also what most bigger sellers want ! Not everyone wants the platforms littered with n00bs you know. New sellers and new buyers are always the ones causing me headaches !
Spending millions on a campaign of "sell for free", and then a month later force sellers to either raise their prices above market value or let ebay take a chunk of the sale (not "selling for free") seems like a clear cut case of misleading and mis advertising, one for Ofcom for sure, and the advertising standards council. This will cost them tens of millions in fines, to say nothing for the shear volume of ebay sellers and buyers effectively pushing for ebay to be cancelled. Quite right too.
I think you are misunderstanding something. They advertised selling for free when you could, now you won’t be able to they won’t be advertising it. Nothing illegal here!
@@jackgolding427 it's not illegal, but it's pretty ridiculous. They obviously knew when this would be introduced. They have been banging on about free selling for a few months, i've never seen such volume of advertising from eBay. If that advertising has worked, most people will probably still believe that to be the case, until they start selling that is!!
This is pushing the definition of "no charges" to the extreme. And the constant drip feed of changes - some of them quite big changes - does give the impression that eBay is floundering and not knowing quite how to respond to competition.
I'm curious about what happens to a private seller when a courier loses their parcel... They don't get paid out until after delivery, but they also don't choose nor manage the postage through ebay's new system. Sounds like they're going to need that 24/7 customer service line.
As a private seller, our listings were dropped from 1000 items to 300 , I don't list anywhere near 300 so suits me fine. I have to just put up with the changes , not a lot else we can do 😕❤
@@BLK2000 Same here - downsizing so selling all of my old "treasures" that I no longer want. I will stick with Ebay, as for the moment, they are Worldwide as opposed to the Vinted only UK - but am sure that will change !!
Appreciate the video, your approach to cross listing and maximising online presence is no question the safest way forward at current and I would guess that any quality clothing would make the best rainy day fund in light that it can be sold on the most platforms fast and easily at present should any business pull the plug. This recent move by eBay definitely allows private sellers to maximise their total profit before hitting the yearly threshold, presuming that eBay don’t incorporate the fees as turnover that is ?? On the flip side from a business seller point of view I would say all this messing private sellers around with strange free but not free fees is really only of benefit to business sellers with less individuals dropping prices low in competition and the costs of living gap only narrowing by the day in the UK market alone 👍👊🤷♂️
Under UK law, a seller typically has the right to withhold delivery of an item until payment has been received. This is part of the concept of "conditional sale" where the transfer of ownership or delivery of goods is contingent upon the payment being made by the buyer. This helps protect sellers from the risk of non-payment. Also as a private seller myself I think its silly being able to list 100's of items they should limit it to like 10 at a time, then maybe a bonus +100 items you can activate yearly for the occasional times you need to sell many things.
I'm a private seller on ebay, vinted and depop. It will be interesting to see how this goes as I have recently made the decision to start tracking details in a spreadsheet and reach a certain amount of month to cover certain household expenses. I have enjoyed reselling since 2023 and seen the benefits so have been pushing this bit by bit since. I haven't got a shop ebay account and I may look into that option as that's a monthly cost and separate to having a business. I don't want to become a business yet as the net income I am making isn't worth it at present. I mainly focus on selling bric a brac as I enjoy this category. I personally haven't seen coupons but I have seen mutibuy option when I have created listings. I gather I haven't seen coupons because I don't have a shop account. Each platform has it's pros and cons but it seems ebay is wanting more and more sellers to transfer over from private to business accounts which is disappointing because not everyone wants to.
Hi George . As a private seller I've looked back over my sold items . Only sold 10 items in last few months but 4 of them have not been marked as delivered. Ie the postie not scanned 3 of them feedback left so all arrived but marked undelivered . Does this mean I wouldn't get paid for these ? Very confused .?
I believe if its not scanned or confirmed delivery you would need to wait 14 days til after expected delivery date then you'd get your money aslong as the buyer hasn't raised a non received case.
As a private seller, I don't mind the percentage fees now it is no longer free to sell again. But the 75p per item kills any low value sales. That is worse than it even was. For small volumes of low value items, I'll just stick stuff on Facebook instead. But that means less money in my ebay account and less visits to ebay so chances are I won't be buying anywhere near as much on ebay. If they wanted to stop traders using private accounts then they could have limited it to 10 items a week or month or whatever.
Not sure where you're getting your figures from but private sellers get 300 free listings per month and then its 35p for each item after that. The 75p is payable by the purchaser and not the seller.
@@Purrrfect_Pleasures i get this from my listings on EBay and vinted. i price almost all clothing at £1...but like Vinted: £1 for the top, plus protection, and P&P, we're looking at closer to £5er.....so why would someone buy a second-hand top for 5er, when you can get a New top from Primark, for that or less. This will now be the case for Ebay, as it is with Vinted.
@@Purrrfect_Pleasures the 75P is taken from the price set by the seller it is not added on top of the cost so as much as yes the buyer pays the seller makes 75p +4% less
I started eBay January 2000 it has been a great selling platform for the vast majority of that time but alas I am a lot less motivated to sell on ebay now, lots of reasons mainly sellers have no help when things go wrong, so I’m looking for a new platform, I now mainly sell records CDs and cassettes and 78s so I th8n’ a more specialised group would benefit, .
I’m still digesting these new charges but a standard fixed 75p charge along with 4% FVF appears, for Private sellers selling low value items, to be putting charges pretty much back as they were before. For example, selling a small paperback book for £3.99 with postage of £2.50 i.e. a total Final Value cost of £6.49 would now be displayed by eBay to any potential buyer as £7.50 i.e. (£6.49 + 75p Fixed + 26p FVF) In real terms that works out as an approximate 15% selling fee! This compares to a previous selling fee (i.e. before the FREE selling announcement) of 12.8% FVF and a 30p fixed fee. Therefore, there is not much in it from what I can see. However, there will be a point when a lower FVF percentage is a benefit to the Private seller. i.e. for more expensive items. Which I guess is what eBay is trying to encourage. For example, if you want a buyer to pay £30 for a book. Previous fees would have been £4.14 (i.e. Fixed fees of 30p + £3.84 which is 12.8% FVF) However, new charges would be more like, list a book for £28, plus 75p + £1.12 which is 4% FVF, in order to show on eBay as a £30 book, giving a £1.87 fee instead of the old £4.14. I will be interested if others agree with this assumption?
Exactly, the real change is; the inexperienced Private Seller now doesn't get discouraged when they sell an item and realises eBay has bitten a chunk out. In real terms we're back to the status quo. Private sellers don't worry about cash flow so won't be bothered about the delay in payment. It may force some to become fully paid up business sellers should they be using a private account to avoid fees.
@@TheLiverpoolDelta I just wanted to say private sellers DO worry about cash flow, and that is my biggest worry with these changes. I started selling stuff around the house because times are hard and everything has become so expensive, and now with having to wait a week to get my money from a sale means paying postage out of my own pocket, which I honestly expect there will be times I just won't be able to. So I can't post the item on time. I've read others say similar on Vinted forums, because a lot of private sellers are just trying to make extra money to pay bills etc and the delay in getting the money is a problem, and was one of the big things that has put me off Vinted.
@@TheLiverpoolDelta sum of us private sellers are just skint : selling our stuff to put food on the table, so the sooner the better in payment please! I had sum unhelpful buyers ask me to post their vinted parcels to them ASAP 10 days b4 xmas, they arrived, and remained uncollected at the buyers post office for a week. The buyers finally did collect, but it was still 2 more days before the money was released. Really crappy.
@@TheLiverpoolDelta NO if you sell a book for £6.49 that's the only price the buyer will see the fee and 75p is taken off the cost of the initial item price you set, the fee is not added on top. Privat sellers do worry about cash flow and don't want to wait weeks for payment.
No, the buyer would see a price of £7.50 (£6.49 + £0.26 + £0.75) if it were a private seller. From the private seller's perspective it's still free to list. This can go one of two ways, either this allows business users to raise their prices to offset the fees they have to pay personally or private sellers start calculating these invisible fees into their pricing in a race to the bottom.
As a private seller, never used any of the multi-buys, coupons etc. The buyer protection is just an additional cost to the buyer (or the seller if you decide to swallow that up in your pricing ad reduce the item) and I can't see it is any more or less than what should be in the system anyway, and surely will put many buyers off from buying items (which negates the whole point of ebay). I have always offered free postage and priced the item to what I am happy to sell it for (with some element of post in the price) and then send it tracked 48. Ebay does baffle, if they just made it easier to search for things and see the whole range of items available, surely they would get even more money instead of messing around at the edges with buyer protection and also if they made their product pages visually more appealing, they would make even more.
I have been a private seller for many years on eBay, just clearing out unwanted items, Nealy always at a fixed price including postage. Following a recent move, and downsizing, I have been selling a fair bit on eBay this past year but have now changed to auctions with 48 hour Royal Mail Tracked postage, paid by the buyer, to be added to the cost. How are eBay going to work out the buyer protection fee on an auction sale? The 75p bit is fixed, but the 4% will depend on the final price. Fortunately I have cleared most of my rubbish, sorry I mean bargains, and will clear the remaining few in the next couple of weeks so will avoid all of this.
Great video, I've had my ebay account for over 20 years and as a private seller I'm seriously thinking about stopping selling due to the new way the buyer protection fee is added, but mainly due to the delay in getting paid. If you sell a cheap item and send it via un recorded delivery it takes upto 14 days to get paid ! So everything has to be sent recorded delivery, even then you can expect a week long delay in getting paid, this and the buyer protection fees are going to push up private seller prices buy a huge amount making it un economical to sell. I bet sellers won't receive any interest on their money with it sitting in ebays bank waiting to be paid out, but I bet ebay will earn interest in that time. I preferred the old system of fees being charged when sold and payment being recieved more or less after 24hrs.
I was more than happy to pay fees - don't even need the "one weekend a month free listing" offer. Wish ebay could just have re-introduced the fees and flushed out blatant business sellers with restricted listings to 100 a month, no coupons, vouchers or variables. It's the 0.75p fee that's broken my ebay journey because I'm selling DVDs at 2.99, which from 4 Feb will be unworkable - I'll be giving them away AND paying something for the privilege. ebay no longer wants the small fry, it wants the big fish who bring in the most money.
There's no changes for a business seller. Private sellers never had the tools mentioned anyway, they were only available to sellers with a shop sub. Buyers always had buyer protection with business sellers anyway, it was called 100% money back GTD. I've never had any problem getting Ebay on the phone. It just depends on the time of day as to which country you get through to.
@@BLK2000 I was not aware of that. You can send coupons? You can do multi buy with variations and multiple purchase discounts? You get access to Ebay funded discount sale events where Ebay cover a % of the sale saving? There's a lot of other tools too. If you know someone with a business account, ask them to let you have a gander at their screen.
@@KellyBruwer Hi Kelly, There's no changes to fee's for business sellers. Private sellers will pay a fee of 4% plus 75p per sale and must used tracked postal services.
Nope, no longer interested after what eBay did to me, so I've been out as a seller for 2 years now and will never visit the site again as a seller or buyer! Seller protection is a joke! A 500+ 5 star account ruined in one transaction, because eBay decided they were happy with the lies the buyer sent over the message system....eBay wouldn't even look at the messages, my very detailed ad description and detailed photos, to see that I was being taken for a ride! I did offer a refund, but did question, why the refund request....then the buyers lies started! That p'd me off and I decided to stand my ground! The buyer stated 'not as described', sent back part of the high value item in a tiny white envelope, eBay fully refunded them and I refused to pay eBay anything until the rest of the item was returned. eBay is now a playground for scammers and I'm glad I'm out of it!!
ARE YOU LISTENING EBAY? GEORGE SAID “for 3 weeks in a row my vinted sales have been better than eBay sales”. EBAY, you gave us free fees for 3 months and we got a taste of how much extra money we make every month. If you don’t do something for business sellers, it’s only a matter of time before we shut down our eBay shop and move to vinted. The new policies eBay have introduced do nothing for business sellers, I see absolutely no improvement. COME ON EBAY, DO SOMETHING.
Hang on a minute - you said that if they don't do anything for business sellers you will shut your shop but if you are a business how did you get free fees for 3 months? As for the new policies, they do something for business sellers - they make it less attractive for unscrupulous businesses to pretend that they are private sellers in order to capitalise on no fees and undercut properly registered businesses. This helps even this out. I don't really think ebay have the ability to weed out all of the fake private sellers, they're probably overwhelmed by the numbers, so the easiest way to weed them out is add a disadvantage so that they naturally either leave or register as a business.
@@PaulWK1972 don’t really care about the people trading on private accounts as it’s none of my business. All I care about is the fees I’m being charged by eBay. EBay gave clothing sellers free fees Oct-Dec and business boomed. It’s made us realise how much money eBay actually make in fees. Vinted is free fees for business sellers and more traffic.
@@PaulWK1972 that’s the thing though, I couldn’t care less about other sellers using a personal account to make business transactions. That’s their business and has nothing to do with me. I do care about the fees I’m being charged. I don’t know about you but as a business seller, eBay gave me free fees from oct - December. During that period I realised just how much eBay are charging me in fees. In December alone, without paying eBay fees I made an extra £1.3k. I buy the same stock every month, list the same amount of items every month and my sales are pretty much the same every month. So the point I am making is if I closed my eBay shop down and moved to vinted, I will probably make an extra £1.3k every month as they don’t charge fees. As per George, he has more sales on vinted than eBay so the traffic is there. That £1.3k extra works out at around £15.6k a year. I don’t know about you but and extra £15k a year in the pocket of a small business owner makes a big difference to quality of life.
As a private seller you only get 300 free listings a month. As a private seller happy to pay a fixed fee of £5 to £10 a month for say 1000 listings to list I have even suggested that to eBay. Then they come out with 300 and this! Why do they have to copy vinted? It’s becoming so silly I am not listing anything else for now
Buyers are already protected on eBay! While I've no issue with them making this clearer/more obvious for buyers, perhaps drawing comparisons with Vinted's TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE for buyers isn't the way forward. I am glad they have found a way to distinguish business sellers from private though...maybe the thought of those additional fees will send more customers our way George
I can only assume that have changed the payout after delivery to try and combat scam items, e.g the thousands of apple products which people list and sell as original which are blatantly fake. This really puts an issue in for me for selling internationally though, items that can take 2/3 weeks to deliver meaning payouts would likely take up to a month sometimes.
Since January 1, 2021, new tax regulations have been implemented in the UK, making it impossible to avoid taxes when selling on platforms like eBay. According to these regulations, eBay is a registered tax agent and is required to report all regular sellers and those with annual sales exceeding £1,000 to HMRC. If a person sells frequently or on a regular basis, eBay automatically considers them a potential business and reports their sales data to HMRC. This applies to private sellers as well. Any sales exceeding the £1,000 threshold are reported to the tax authorities, even if the seller is not registered as a business. Failing to comply with these regulations can result in fines and other tax penalties. Therefore, since 2021, avoiding taxes through eBay in the UK has become impossible. The platform tracks sellers' income and reports it to HMRC, making it impossible to hide sales and avoid paying taxes.
The only way eBay will know if an item has been delivered will be for the seller to download/print a delivery slip with Tracking, no doubt that's going to cost so who pays for it... I've Sold around 200 items on eBay privately over 8 years and i have a 100% record, this clearly means nothing to eBay..
I send my ebay items via 48 tracked service from the post office, i wonder how ebay will track the item? Perhaps we are to put the tracking number manually on ebay? 2 weeks a long time to wait for payment otherwise? Thanks
The end fee is a bit lower though than it was before, it varied by category but used to average out to aorund 13% fee last year, 4-5% isnt too bad, only issue is its been delivered in a very messy way.
@@UCVintageI think this is great change stops scams from new accounts been as big. I’m not massive maybe 500 sales when changes were made and I had 300 off the rip !
varys as to some even 300 free lists is more then enough, like i sell on & off and i dont sell anywhere near 300 items in year myself maybe 40 or less at most as i do odd clear out once in while but im not person who visit places often for bargains to sell on as daily task.
I’m an Australian seller and up until a month or so ago I was able to get on the phone with eBay 24 hours a day. They’ve since changed it to 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday but due to being on the “wrong” side of Australia it’s actually only until 3pm. Really wish they would stop removing any small perk sellers have.
As a business seller they say we can expect more exclusive benefits in the future ie more silly perks or ways for them to take more money of us when all we want are less fees and to be able to list more items for free in or shop subscription.
They should just just passed in the buyer protection fee for both private and business sellers but took away fees for business sellers as well. No need to take from already struggling businesses, they would also see an increase in business accounts. Then spend resources in tracking private account businesses simple.
would not work as Ebay has 3 types of people who sell on ebay. private,small business and high street (argos etc) problem is high street sellers like argos currys A.O. etc will sell on ebay with item that are the same price as their shops. By adding the buyer protection fee on high street prices. then these will be higher than their own brick and mator shops.
Private accounts are a stepping stone. Its intended to use until you are selling 1000 items a month.....we all have to start somewhere. You chose to start as a business by the sound of it. Other chose to build the business first then go all in. The next step for you is brick and mortar.
I sold an item (about £100 and heavy, so expensive postage)
Two days after it sold at auction the buyer messages to say they've changed their mind and want a refund.
I explained that I had already sent it by post .
Buyer then complains to ebay that item doesn't work so ebay refunds them despite clearly being a nonsense (it hadn't even arrived yet!)
No reduction in ebay fees
Sellers get no protection on ebay
Did you ask the buyer to return it ?
@@neildee9834 yep, it's absolutely stupid
I believe that's a common scam.
@martinbrown7587 yes, mercifully I got it back, but obviously minus the ebay listing and selling fees; plus the postage....so around £27 down
@@user-hm5zb1qn6g seems that way.
As I said, no protection for sellers
I got scammed as a seller. Buyer did a charge back. So I turned up at the door with 5 mates and did a house clearance
I'm a private seller and although the changes don't come in for a month I've already started taking off items I'm selling for under a fiver. Its just getting too much of a pain. And having to pay postage out of our own pocket , to then wait potentially a couple of weeks to get that money back! I'd love to know how much interest Ebay are going to be making on all this money they will be holding on to????
I never put anything (sell my old books) on less than a fiver, generally as the post takes most of that. If the buyer protection is added on then it is going to be a small addition to the buyer's cost (I don't want to swallow that into the price as well as it would mean making peanuts for many really cheap items)
THIS IS INSANE THIS JUST KILLED MOST OF MY LISTINGS
According to ebay they make no money from payments held
Are they expecting everything to be tracked irrespective of value? That's nonsense, as a private seller (and yes I am not a business) that will almost double my shipping costs on items under £20. Anything over £20 I almost always send Royal Mail Tracked. And bringing back fees by the backdoor, what was the point of getting rid of them!
@bigandynorton1964 I'm doing the same if my items havnt sold by Feb I'm deleting them and dropping ebay out.
Key problem is the postage. I’m a regular seller and I’d say -1 in 20 packages aren’t scanned on delivery. Luckily I’ve been paid and the person has been honest and left positive feedback or hasn’t tried to take advantage. Payment after delivery will be a nightmare in these scenarios and is putting huge power onto delivery companies whether they realise it or not
That's exactly what I was going to point out as one of the issues. It doesn't matter whether it's sent via courier or Royal Mail, a good percentage of items never get scanned on delivery, so does that mean the sellers won't ever get their money? Or maybe ebay will have you jumping through hoops to get that money? I really don't think they've thought this through. If I order anything online from any business, I have to pay for that item before they will even post it to me. I don't get to say to them "I'll pay for it when it's delivered".
@@CyberCurtainTwitcher - UK Private sellers WILL be paid if they don't use tracked shipping, except they have to wait 14 days for payment after the order date. I quote UK eBay (may they rot in Hell): "For untracked deliveries, or tracked deliveries with no delivery confirmation, the seller will receive payment 14 days from the order date."
Private sellers have never had coupons, multiple items etc etc. Those tools have only ever been available to those with a shop. And it went from 1000 free listings a month to 300 a month when it went free to sell. It’s going to be the lower priced items that will become just pointless to sell, 4% plus 75p plus having to use a tracked postage service or it’s a crap shoot wether or not you get your money. Interesting times ahead. EBay really did this to themselves when the selling fees just constantly increased to a point where a lot of folks just stopped selling and Vinted and FB Marketplace made more sense. Happens to every business with a perceived monopoly, they think they can increase profits by just charging more and more and then are surprised when they get out manoeuvred by a new entrant.
Private sellers do have the multiple item option.
@@jackiesmithsmetaldetecting And private sellers do have the % discount offers currently.....soon to go I believe. But yes to the multiple item option too!
Private sellers do have multiple item option but they will not be able to give multiple item discount.
@@jamesmonington I thought this James. Ironically I got a coupon applied over Christmas/ new year bank holiday for first time (iv been selling regularly 4 years) and have had 50 plus followers for 3 years. I thought odd at time but the clearly applied just so they can add it as usp to business accounts lol
In a sense lower priced items should be pointless to sell. It’s terrible for environment to be sending cheap shit hundreds of miles. I do this myself but when I have money and when I was a kid I only used eBay for niche collection pieces and hard to get items! There is a real lack of these now especially in things like retro Nintendo games and Pokemon where everyone thinks they sitting on a gold mine and try selling everything at completely unrealistic price points! I can only think the price points are driven by overseas buyers as if I ever sell a game or card for £50 plus that’s retro nearly always goes to us/ Canada, Germany / France / Spain ,Australia or Japan. Do others find this?
As a buyer, i've told ebay to close my account after 15 years and i told them i dont appreciate the changes as a buyer.
if ebay are losing ground to vinted, how is messing around with fee structure going to gain market share? It looks like they have run out of ideas and are blindly copying
Just means they're not competing on that field. I've heard so many private sellers tell me stories about getting caught out by not understanding eBay's fees including cost of postage. They end up selling items at a loss and not using the platform again. It's just more transparent for the inexperienced sellers.
Could be, but they were charging much for everything so I think they sliming down fees in as it should be, reality kicks in.
@@TheLiverpoolDelta happened to me bud took me 2-3 months to get on top of it and if they put it back to a shambles then I'll just sell on vinted so ebay lose
If I am looking to buy on ebay and it's a business seller then we all know most have a vinted account and most sell cheaper on vinted so why would I buy on ebay
It's the business seller selling cheaper on another platform that's affecting ebay not the private seller
@@magnets1000 it's the fees creep that's really done it I think. £1.40 to sell something for a tenner, then postage on top... plus the fraud, the no neg feedback for buyers. With no competition for years it lost its way and it's roots. It stopped being 'fun' to sell a good decade ago.
@@jamesmoningtonyou hit the nail on the head, no negative feedback for buyers, sellers have no protection at all from people that just use eBay to buy.
eBay has been going down hill for years now. I used to love it, but now it's my least favourite platform
what can we sell on instead?
It is painful selling on ebay. They mess with their sellers every way they can. They have an unnecessarily complicated fee structure. It could be SO simple!
You hit the nail on the head. ebay is reactionary. They are constantly making changes because they can't come up with their own ideas. More fees just repackaged as something they have always done.
eBay wants to be Amazon at the same time as only doing a fraction of the work Amazon does. I'll be taking my listings down before the 4th of Feb .. I may come back if and when eBay sorts themselves out.
@@KatchouroBlade me too, don't know if I'll EVER go back though
I would also like to point out that genuine private sellers are not going out buying cheaply from warehouses, charity shops, car boots, etc, choosing what they know will sell well and make the most profit. We are selling our own belongings, that we have paid full price for, and sell effectively for peanuts compared to what we paid and have to try to compete with businesses who can sell cheaper, have thousands of reviews, probably cheaper postage, etc. I appreciate some people aren't genuine and try to cheat the system but most of us have morals/don't want to court trouble and do not! That said... THANK YOU for this video. I did get the eBay email but hadn't realised I would need to do this calculation to add on the buyer fees in order to try to be competitive.
Private sellers will not get paid until proof of delivery therfore thet will need to send tracked increasing the cost a lot of private sellers will just not bother.
Private sellers WILL be paid if they don't use tracked shipping, except they have to wait 14 days for payment after the order date. I quote eBay (may they rot in Hell): "For untracked deliveries, or tracked deliveries with no delivery confirmation, the seller will receive payment 14 days from the order date."
@@Teds-Tunes Thanks for this, I have not seen this. Changes things a little for me. As its such a big increase using tracked as opposed to not.
it wont be worth selling anything under £10.00- £15.00 as you will have to send it tracked and some items are not worth it with postage costs as the buyer will just say it has not arrived.
could this be the end for lower cost items
Nope. Most of my items are around £10 but because that's my business I will continue serving my loyal repeat customers.
@PaulWK1972 talking for private sellers it won't be worth it
@@MISSDELUCA Why should a buyer fee bother genuine private sellers? The only ones who will be affected is resellers running a business and pretending to be private.
@@PaulWK1972 I don't think you understand but never mind not going to get into a lengthy chat no further commination needed thank you.
TO REPEAT MYSELF: UK Private sellers WILL be paid if they don't use tracked shipping, except they have to wait 14 days for payment after the order date. I quote UK eBay (may they rot in Hell): "For untracked deliveries, or tracked deliveries with no delivery confirmation, the seller will receive payment 14 days from the order date."
I use royal mail tracked 48 that comes with £150 compensation for my customers so why do they need "buyer protection" 🤔? It should be offered as an option for buyers. EBay are having their cake and eating it, being far to greedy!
@@cj-iz4kf because it’s easier to deal with eBay than the stressful Royal Mail system. As a buyer that has been my experience
Why on earth can ebay not leave things alone…. they have to continually make change to things. You just get use to a way of working, then it’s altered. It’s hard enough already trying get to grips with there way of working….. This latest idea of making payment to private sellers available after delivery may well be a step to far….. I will not be listing from its introduction, in fact not from a fortnight before. Boycott selling on eBay….. they will soon get the message.
I knew there would be a scam looming once the free to sell started. Only a fool would pay postage up front and send goods without having already received payment. What will happen in the case of selling items that are only collect in person please?
what if the item is left in an unsafe place
& gos missing that is not delivered to me
Buyer protection fees for business sellers coming soon - closely followed by seller protection fees and protection from eBay fees - sounds like a modern day protection racket 😎
@blinkinflip im a business account i so,d a 140 item and i get charged 22 for fees then they randomly took another 10 i contact their customer support and i get left on read 😂
Occasional Private seller here…this sucks for me
For sellers Ebay is quite the headache, i try to avoid it if at all possible.
Cheers for sharing George. I knew that “free to sell for private sellers” would come at a price. The new policy of having to wait until 2 days after delivery for payment is insane 😡 😢
As a private seller,I thought it would change because ebay not making any money from us with all been free.Have noticed my sales have dramatically slowed since. I think because the ebay algorithm put business sellers items as priority,because Ebay benefit.
I also think it's the promoted/ sponsored listings. The % you pay for that can be variable daily or set for you at your convenience. There was 0% fees as a trial, and I only got more views and almost no sales, in bloody December before Xmas. That shouldn't have happened, they should have deactivated the button that hides 30% of your listings as a punishment for not paying extra to promote.
Has a private seller my email says we will have to wait 14 days for payment, or when buyer says received it, my post office rarely click on there delivered unless you pay a recordered delivery
Send tracked 48 I think a lot of it is royal mail having to pay lots in compo to sellers due to scam buyers. They buy second first class and claim item hasn’t arrived when it has. It’s why I moved all things to tracked 48 around 12 months ago. Also had added advantage that if you buy and get qr code that you can’t mess up address as you know longer have to write it on package. We code gets scanned prints another qr code that is stuck to the parcel at parcel shop. So eliminated human error as well as scams!
@@jackgolding427 that only works if you're selling items worth at least £10. Who is going to pay £4+ for tracking and buyer protection on something that's only worth a couple of quid?
Hi Jackie, I just commented a response relating to exactly what you just said. Good to see you are still around.
@@CyberCurtainTwitcher Hi CCT happy new year. yes my parents house almost sold now. Hoping to get back out this year
Any barriers to buyers whether perceived or real are detrimental to the platform as a whole. Did they come up with this at the Christmas party?
Also, what does this Buyer Protection Fee actually do? Does this mean ebay will payout to buyers for lost packages instead of the seller? Somehow I don't think so...the seller will have to pay out and ebay will just pcoket all of these "protection" fees for doing nothing at all.
DONT THINK THESES NEW POLICIES WILL INCREASE SALES FOR EBAY IF ANYTHING DECREASE AS MANY PRIVATE SELLERS MIGHT LEAVE TO VINTED , ETSY , OR AMAZON
@@lancethrust9488 I’ve heard ‘eBay is dying’ for 10+ years. It never does though
Private sellers don't have access to coupons, discounts, etc, anyway! As a private seller myself, I am a single mum with now adult children. I am in the process of downsizing so am selling decades worth of clutter in my house in order to reduce my mortgage. Many private sellers don't have spare cash, that's why they sell their belongings and often get far less for them that the post office do (and, until recently, Ebay through fees). Their fee removal was helpful and welcome but now they are making us fork out for postage and packing without having the money in advance to pay for it. We will have to track sales to make sure we actually get the money. It isn't right or fair. I appreciate that some private sellers may abuse the system but most of us don't. We genuinely need the money and this move by eBay is treating us like business sellers with more potential for loss and having to fork out expenses before we have the money to cover those. It's just wrong.
If you're genuinely selling unwanted personal items then you're not really in competition with anyone else and so an extra quid on your item won't make much difference - take the quid off your asking price.
Also, postage can be bought out of pending fees
Totally agree. I suspect that a lot of private sellers, like yerself and me, sell personal items to top up any low or meagre income they may have. I am very likely NOT to have any available personal funds available to pay in advance for the postage of any sold item myself, so, I suspect that e-bay are going to LOSE a LOT of sellers in February...likely never to return?
Not to vinted either, which, by all accounts, sounds like a race to the bottom of the pile?
Been with ebay since 2000. It used to be fun & easy & was a bonus to be able to sell my unwanted/ no longer used items with relative ease, as well as always being able to find something to buy aswell. Now, for me, I doubt any of my clearouts will make it to ebay because whats the point? The time listing, photos etc then if it sells the packing & post drop only to have to hope it gets scanned by the postie the other end before receiving payment (up to 14 days), which we all know how the scammers love to say theyve not received so the phone calls & emails bk & forth with ebay just seem too much effort. Ive decided to bootsale all my bits n bobs from now on.
I am beginning to hate ebay these days. I sell the odd bit from my collections basically to find other purchases. I sold an antique camera before Christmas and the money is on hold. Yet the item has been delivered and the buyer has left me positive feedback. When I asked where my money was, i got told you will have to wait until the buyer is happy with their purchase. Er I have positive feedback but I am still waiting for my money...
@Jewellerybybarrie This is happening to me now, they owe me £300, because Royal Mail hasn't scanned at least three items and updated the tracking, I can't get my money!
ebay should have kept it simple, it was a winning formula.
inflated fees, no seller ability to leave feedback like the old days, people using other platforms now to buy and sell.
i was going to go back online and start selling on ebay again but 4 years later, havent even bothered. I just use ebay to buy music.
I got 200 items in my shop ranging from £10 to £900, my sales are dead📍
Empty bottles? Booklets? Pants worn to holes? Shoes with animal hair inside? A tape recorder from the 90s? Fur coats for people in Antarctica? Skis? Winter sleds?
Never selling on Ebay again. I have so many reasons.
Right so for private sellers the buyer pays for the item, Ebay take a fee out of that and what's left goes to the seller ...so exactly the same as it was before except that now Ebay get to hold onto money for longer and also claim that it's "free to sell." Very cynical.
As a business seller who almost exclusively sells clothing I was over the moon with the no fees offer from Oct-Dec. Massively helped my business. But the reintroduction of fees has put a massive dent in my profit margins. Not to mention the £92 a month shop subscription that I have to pay (for which, by the way, I don't see what value I get for my money). These changes they've introduced seem to be nothing more than token gestures to appease business sellers. I would much prefer to sell my items on vinted. I list everything on both platforms but obviously get more sales on ebay. Wish it was the other way around
92 a month really that's ridiculous atleast ebay could cancel the shop fees
yea, id not heard anyone say, till George, that clothes are back up for fees now, that really sucks!!
Can you not get a smaller shop subscription?
you can get a business account fir free but no shop. fees are crazy high
@ you can for like £35 a month I think it is. But I have 600+ listings most of the time as always buying new stock, so I would end up having to pay per listing every time they renew which I’m pretty sure would work out more than the current ship subscription I pay
4% plus 0.75p is nothing compared to business fees, so private sellers can still under cut us by a mile
👆🏻 This
Whilst I agree with your statement when it comes to businesses running off a private account (Ebay seems to be flushing them out with these new changes) - many private sellers, myself included, are selling stuff at low prices - DVDs for £2.99 or three paperback books for £5.95. The Buyer Protection Fee of 4% plus 0.75p makes it impossible to sell at these prices so we're priced out by Music Magpie, World of Books etc. There will be many private sellers who will close accounts and move to other platforms (Vinted, FB marketplace etc.) or simply sell stock as a job lot or shift it to charity shops.
And most of these "private sellers" don't declare their earnings to HMRC so pay no income tax on it either. This will change soon, a lot do not realise that since 31 Jan last year eBay (and Vinted etc) have been sending your sales data to HMRC. They will not care what account type you have, only that if you are trading unlawfully that you will owe income tax. It's coming, people just aren't aware of it yet.
Quite true, but it does help a little. For example 4% plus 75p on a tenner item is £1.15, whereas a business seller will pay a selling fee of around £1.70. So that gap has been cut from £1.70 to 55p on an example tenner item. Some of the businesses pretending to be private sellers will not have been around for every long and will give up when it's not all going their way.
@@dpw81 I'm not paying tax on my own belongings that I am selling at a loss. You need to stop accusing "most of these" "private sellers" of running some kind of reselling scam. I'm not trading unlawfully, I'm a private seller, and I'm not alone, with a huge collection of stuff to sell. The tax man can take a f**king hike! I paid tax on my wages before I bought the items and I'm not paying the tax man again.
eBay needs to support business sellers more, reduce fees and increase shop allowances.
I just cannot be bothered with either anymore. I’m looking forward to boot sales returning so I can off load my unwanted clothes and stuff there. It’s just been too many changes and too much confusion. I’m done with both of them. I actually deleted my Vinted account a few weeks ago so I would never be tempted to try again. Nope, bye bye, I’m done with both of them as a seller (of my own unwanted items).
I feel the same, sadly I don't have a car and I work every weekend morning so car booting my stuff is impossible. I'm currently putting everything on 99p auction and anything left on 3 February goes to/is collected by charity.
Morning George, thanks for the video. Im a private seller, never had access to coupons and sales options, so that is not a problem. Been selling for over 10 years.
I've had a private selling account since c 1999 for genuinely selling off personal stuff and not as a business. However, I dont recall ever being able to offer vouchers/discounts etc so it "being taken away" certainly wont affect me.
They’ve had the multiple quantity discount option for private sellers for quite some time. It would only show if you were selling more than one of the same item
im private, and iv done it pasts few months :)
EBAY LITERALLY JUST DEEP THROATED US WITHOUT CONSENT
Still won’t attract more casual sellers to eBay because they don’t want to cover the postage costs upfront. As a reseller it’s not really important to me. I don’t earn enough to “go legit” as a business I just sell a lot of decent value items to enable me to buy what I want.
Back in the day buying an selling were simple now with all the EBAY scams I wouldn’t go near the place, buying wise I go to Ali Express cheaper, same quality.
depends what you buy on ali express some stuff very good but not everything is
Wasn't the whole point of "zero private seller fees" to increase the active user base for both the benefit of private and business sellers? To me it just seems that they have undone all their good work from October 24 and will continue the active user decline they have been experiencing since 2018. They're still a big player, but they are slowing drowning.
I don't understand what the buyer protection fee pays for? Private sellers will have to pay for tracked mail making anything under £6 with zero profit for seller (Cost Of Item + Tracked Postage) so the buyer can say they never received their item tracked or not, This will be a huge boost for scammers on ebay.
Almost seems like it is set up for scammers to join in more
Ebay HATE sellers 🙄🙄🙄🙄
Sounds like all good news for business sellers, apart from clothing fees reintroduced.
If any longer term private sellers, who understand all the Ebay workings, are reading this please consider doing videos on RUclips. All the videos currently seem to be from business sellers so us private sellers can't get the info we need to help us. If I'm wrong on this and there are helpful videos from private sellers please let me know. Thanks.
Not everything on Ebay gets delivered in two days, there is all kinds of issues that can delay this.
? you get paid 2 days after tracking shows it has been delivered
@@VideoHero ok,, at 8:09 in your video you said sellers wont get there money until a delivery has been made within two days.
@@larky3not my video- he wasn’t too clear in his words but obviously its not 2 days delivery its 2 days after successful delivery
I'm a part time private seller . I always charged royal mail second class to get the tracking number. What happen is , not always the post man scan the item when delivering, therefore Im not sure if the item was delivered, only when I get positive feedback or I don't get any complaints after a while that I assume that it was delivered, but now how this is going to work to get payed ???;!? How I'm going to get payed for that specific item that wasn't scanned ???!?! That's my worry !!!
Royal mail tracked is better for extra 20p plus compensation is higher £150
Yes, I too post basic 2nd class as £3.75 is alot to add to a 2nd hand item, but is the least you can post most clothing for. Recently many items not scanned when delivered but 1 had feedback. So , will I never be paid for the non scanned items? Asked eBay but they chose to use AI to pretend to answer unrelated questions. It takes so long for anything to sell now anyway, I can't afford to pay to send and then NEVER receive payment. I ' ll get my pension soon so maybe I'll just donate my stuff to charity instead, as I don't have a car to do car boot sales. Great business model eBay!
@AchNastyMusic I'm having the same problem, I have sent all of my deliveries tracked but they're just not being scanned.
So ebay won't give me any money.
I offer samples for 99p as a private seller , pointless now , reduces overall sales therefore .
And obviously for items less than £20 through postal system it’s not worth tracking , so they hold money for 14 days .
They have also added for private sellers that's they will not get paid till a item is delivered coping vinted again
This has all the hallmarks of a company in panic mode.
I mean, it just doesn't. But alright.
I mean, it just doesn't. But alright.
eBay has been going down hill since it lost PayPal, as a buyer and a seller I am out after 22 years. It’s a clown show on their now, lots are leaving are have disappeared. Each change is to try to fix the exodus just make it worse.
BREXIT ?
Maybe time to return to places like Gumtree, as there really is no point at all selling anything on eBay. You won't make much and the government will be on your back wanting to know why your turnover figure is high. Your profit will not be.
EBay are doomed and they know it!
Business accounts cost a fortune to have a shop and for all the added fees they add is daft
2024 eBay reported a revenue of $2.556 billion. Far from doomed.
@@JustJamesHere They should be.
So are private sellers going to fork out 💰 money for postage before they get paid? 😮
Another thing worth mentioning is that many Private sellers will be paying their tax for the 1st time (or getting estimated tax bills through the post if they haven't self-assessed) Which could well mean people pulling out of reselling altogether.
Great news it’s what the govt want to stop, the decimation of the high street and it’s also what most bigger sellers want ! Not everyone wants the platforms littered with n00bs you know. New sellers and new buyers are always the ones causing me headaches !
Private sellers shouldn't be reselling for profit, that's business activity not personal activity.
Spending millions on a campaign of "sell for free", and then a month later force sellers to either raise their prices above market value or let ebay take a chunk of the sale (not "selling for free") seems like a clear cut case of misleading and mis advertising, one for Ofcom for sure, and the advertising standards council. This will cost them tens of millions in fines, to say nothing for the shear volume of ebay sellers and buyers effectively pushing for ebay to be cancelled.
Quite right too.
I think you are misunderstanding something. They advertised selling for free when you could, now you won’t be able to they won’t be advertising it. Nothing illegal here!
@@jackgolding427 it's not illegal, but it's pretty ridiculous. They obviously knew when this would be introduced. They have been banging on about free selling for a few months, i've never seen such volume of advertising from eBay. If that advertising has worked, most people will probably still believe that to be the case, until they start selling that is!!
@@jackgolding427 nope.
This is pushing the definition of "no charges" to the extreme. And the constant drip feed of changes - some of them quite big changes - does give the impression that eBay is floundering and not knowing quite how to respond to competition.
I'm curious about what happens to a private seller when a courier loses their parcel... They don't get paid out until after delivery, but they also don't choose nor manage the postage through ebay's new system. Sounds like they're going to need that 24/7 customer service line.
Nightmare.
It's the same for supermarkets. One rolls a new business structure out , the rest follow.
As a private seller, our listings were dropped from 1000 items to 300 , I don't list anywhere near 300 so suits me fine. I have to just put up with the changes , not a lot else we can do 😕❤
same, if ya private, u aint really going to reach 100 listings per month i dnt think. i do about 30. just getting rid of bits and bobs is all x
@@BLK2000 Same here - downsizing so selling all of my old "treasures" that I no longer want. I will stick with Ebay, as for the moment, they are Worldwide as opposed to the Vinted only UK - but am sure that will change !!
Appreciate the video, your approach to cross listing and maximising online presence is no question the safest way forward at current and I would guess that any quality clothing would make the best rainy day fund in light that it can be sold on the most platforms fast and easily at present should any business pull the plug. This recent move by eBay definitely allows private sellers to maximise their total profit before hitting the yearly threshold, presuming that eBay don’t incorporate the fees as turnover that is ?? On the flip side from a business seller point of view I would say all this messing private sellers around with strange free but not free fees is really only of benefit to business sellers with less individuals dropping prices low in competition and the costs of living gap only narrowing by the day in the UK market alone 👍👊🤷♂️
Cheers for sharing. I was abit confused about it! Appreciated
Under UK law, a seller typically has the right to withhold delivery of an item until payment has been received. This is part of the concept of "conditional sale" where the transfer of ownership or delivery of goods is contingent upon the payment being made by the buyer. This helps protect sellers from the risk of non-payment. Also as a private seller myself I think its silly being able to list 100's of items they should limit it to like 10 at a time, then maybe a bonus +100 items you can activate yearly for the occasional times you need to sell many things.
You dont want the purchaser choosing the shipping option as they will always opt for a non tracked option which opens you to being scammed
If tiktok shop starts allowing used item saled, vinted, depop and ebay are finished.
it happened months ago on Amazon its called deferred payment. they collect interest on sellers' money basically to screw small business
I'm a private seller on ebay, vinted and depop. It will be interesting to see how this goes as I have recently made the decision to start tracking details in a spreadsheet and reach a certain amount of month to cover certain household expenses. I have enjoyed reselling since 2023 and seen the benefits so have been pushing this bit by bit since. I haven't got a shop ebay account and I may look into that option as that's a monthly cost and separate to having a business. I don't want to become a business yet as the net income I am making isn't worth it at present. I mainly focus on selling bric a brac as I enjoy this category.
I personally haven't seen coupons but I have seen mutibuy option when I have created listings. I gather I haven't seen coupons because I don't have a shop account.
Each platform has it's pros and cons but it seems ebay is wanting more and more sellers to transfer over from private to business accounts which is disappointing because not everyone wants to.
10% flat rate selling fee.
No automatic returns.
Bring back buyer feedback.
0.5% upto whatever you wish promoted listing.
Tools, shop fronts, discounts to business accounts only.
Hi George . As a private seller I've looked back over my sold items . Only sold 10 items in last few months but 4 of them have not been marked as delivered. Ie the postie not scanned 3 of them feedback left so all arrived but marked undelivered . Does this mean I wouldn't get paid for these ? Very confused .?
I believe if its not scanned or confirmed delivery you would need to wait 14 days til after expected delivery date then you'd get your money aslong as the buyer hasn't raised a non received case.
As a private seller, I don't mind the percentage fees now it is no longer free to sell again. But the 75p per item kills any low value sales. That is worse than it even was. For small volumes of low value items, I'll just stick stuff on Facebook instead. But that means less money in my ebay account and less visits to ebay so chances are I won't be buying anywhere near as much on ebay. If they wanted to stop traders using private accounts then they could have limited it to 10 items a week or month or whatever.
Not sure where you're getting your figures from but private sellers get 300 free listings per month and then its 35p for each item after that. The 75p is payable by the purchaser and not the seller.
@@Purrrfect_Pleasuresmeaning a low cost book listed has the extra added so looks pricey
@@Purrrfect_Pleasures i get this from my listings on EBay and vinted. i price almost all clothing at £1...but like Vinted: £1 for the top, plus protection, and P&P, we're looking at closer to £5er.....so why would someone buy a second-hand top for 5er, when you can get a New top from Primark, for that or less.
This will now be the case for Ebay, as it is with Vinted.
@@Purrrfect_Pleasures "up to" 300 free a month is can and does take several months to build to that amount.
@@Purrrfect_Pleasures the 75P is taken from the price set by the seller it is not added on top of the cost so as much as yes the buyer pays the seller makes 75p +4% less
Charging buyers extra for something we already had?
Scam. Time to buy elsewhere.
I started eBay January 2000 it has been a great selling platform for the vast majority of that time but alas I am a lot less motivated to sell on ebay now, lots of reasons mainly sellers have no help when things go wrong, so I’m looking for a new platform, I now mainly sell records CDs and cassettes and 78s so I th8n’ a more specialised group would benefit, .
I wish I knew private users could have done coupons before Xmas when I was selling my sins old toys 😢
I’m still digesting these new charges but a standard fixed 75p charge along with 4% FVF appears, for Private sellers selling low value items, to be putting charges pretty much back as they were before. For example, selling a small paperback book for £3.99 with postage of £2.50 i.e. a total Final Value cost of £6.49 would now be displayed by eBay to any potential buyer as £7.50 i.e. (£6.49 + 75p Fixed + 26p FVF) In real terms that works out as an approximate 15% selling fee! This compares to a previous selling fee (i.e. before the FREE selling announcement) of 12.8% FVF and a 30p fixed fee. Therefore, there is not much in it from what I can see. However, there will be a point when a lower FVF percentage is a benefit to the Private seller. i.e. for more expensive items. Which I guess is what eBay is trying to encourage. For example, if you want a buyer to pay £30 for a book. Previous fees would have been £4.14 (i.e. Fixed fees of 30p + £3.84 which is 12.8% FVF) However, new charges would be more like, list a book for £28, plus 75p + £1.12 which is 4% FVF, in order to show on eBay as a £30 book, giving a £1.87 fee instead of the old £4.14. I will be interested if others agree with this assumption?
Exactly, the real change is; the inexperienced Private Seller now doesn't get discouraged when they sell an item and realises eBay has bitten a chunk out. In real terms we're back to the status quo. Private sellers don't worry about cash flow so won't be bothered about the delay in payment. It may force some to become fully paid up business sellers should they be using a private account to avoid fees.
@@TheLiverpoolDelta I just wanted to say private sellers DO worry about cash flow, and that is my biggest worry with these changes. I started selling stuff around the house because times are hard and everything has become so expensive, and now with having to wait a week to get my money from a sale means paying postage out of my own pocket, which I honestly expect there will be times I just won't be able to. So I can't post the item on time. I've read others say similar on Vinted forums, because a lot of private sellers are just trying to make extra money to pay bills etc and the delay in getting the money is a problem, and was one of the big things that has put me off Vinted.
@@TheLiverpoolDelta sum of us private sellers are just skint : selling our stuff to put food on the table, so the sooner the better in payment please!
I had sum unhelpful buyers ask me to post their vinted parcels to them ASAP 10 days b4 xmas, they arrived, and remained uncollected at the buyers post office for a week. The buyers finally did collect, but it was still 2 more days before the money was released. Really crappy.
@@TheLiverpoolDelta NO if you sell a book for £6.49 that's the only price the buyer will see the fee and 75p is taken off the cost of the initial item price you set, the fee is not added on top. Privat sellers do worry about cash flow and don't want to wait weeks for payment.
No, the buyer would see a price of £7.50 (£6.49 + £0.26 + £0.75) if it were a private seller. From the private seller's perspective it's still free to list.
This can go one of two ways, either this allows business users to raise their prices to offset the fees they have to pay personally or private sellers start calculating these invisible fees into their pricing in a race to the bottom.
As a private seller, never used any of the multi-buys, coupons etc. The buyer protection is just an additional cost to the buyer (or the seller if you decide to swallow that up in your pricing ad reduce the item) and I can't see it is any more or less than what should be in the system anyway, and surely will put many buyers off from buying items (which negates the whole point of ebay). I have always offered free postage and priced the item to what I am happy to sell it for (with some element of post in the price) and then send it tracked 48.
Ebay does baffle, if they just made it easier to search for things and see the whole range of items available, surely they would get even more money instead of messing around at the edges with buyer protection and also if they made their product pages visually more appealing, they would make even more.
I have been a private seller for many years on eBay, just clearing out unwanted items, Nealy always at a fixed price including postage.
Following a recent move, and downsizing, I have been selling a fair bit on eBay this past year but have now changed to auctions with 48 hour Royal Mail Tracked postage, paid by the buyer, to be added to the cost. How are eBay going to work out the buyer protection fee on an auction sale? The 75p bit is fixed, but the 4% will depend on the final price.
Fortunately I have cleared most of my rubbish, sorry I mean bargains, and will clear the remaining few in the next couple of weeks so will avoid all of this.
Great video, I've had my ebay account for over 20 years and as a private seller I'm seriously thinking about stopping selling due to the new way the buyer protection fee is added, but mainly due to the delay in getting paid. If you sell a cheap item and send it via un recorded delivery it takes upto 14 days to get paid ! So everything has to be sent recorded delivery, even then you can expect a week long delay in getting paid, this and the buyer protection fees are going to push up private seller prices buy a huge amount making it un economical to sell. I bet sellers won't receive any interest on their money with it sitting in ebays bank waiting to be paid out, but I bet ebay will earn interest in that time. I preferred the old system of fees being charged when sold and payment being recieved more or less after 24hrs.
I was more than happy to pay fees - don't even need the "one weekend a month free listing" offer. Wish ebay could just have re-introduced the fees and flushed out blatant business sellers with restricted listings to 100 a month, no coupons, vouchers or variables. It's the 0.75p fee that's broken my ebay journey because I'm selling DVDs at 2.99, which from 4 Feb will be unworkable - I'll be giving them away AND paying something for the privilege. ebay no longer wants the small fry, it wants the big fish who bring in the most money.
There's no changes for a business seller.
Private sellers never had the tools mentioned anyway, they were only available to sellers with a shop sub.
Buyers always had buyer protection with business sellers anyway, it was called 100% money back GTD.
I've never had any problem getting Ebay on the phone. It just depends on the time of day as to which country you get through to.
Private sellers currently do have those tools. I know, bc, i am one, and i have been using the tools over xmas .
@@BLK2000 I was not aware of that. You can send coupons? You can do multi buy with variations and multiple purchase discounts? You get access to Ebay funded discount sale events where Ebay cover a % of the sale saving? There's a lot of other tools too. If you know someone with a business account, ask them to let you have a gander at their screen.
hi so are business seller paying a fee to sell im confused? or is the buyer pay it. will we still have a FVF or not im confused thanks
@@BLK2000 Hi BLK, you've been able to send coupons to followers as a private seller?
@@KellyBruwer Hi Kelly, There's no changes to fee's for business sellers. Private sellers will pay a fee of 4% plus 75p per sale and must used tracked postal services.
Will you have to buy postage from ebay
It’s going to really affect small sales of under £3 as the % is small but the 75p is ridiculous
.Try not to sell anything for less than £1000
Nope, no longer interested after what eBay did to me, so I've been out as a seller for 2 years now and will never visit the site again as a seller or buyer! Seller protection is a joke!
A 500+ 5 star account ruined in one transaction, because eBay decided they were happy with the lies the buyer sent over the message system....eBay wouldn't even look at the messages, my very detailed ad description and detailed photos, to see that I was being taken for a ride!
I did offer a refund, but did question, why the refund request....then the buyers lies started! That p'd me off and I decided to stand my ground!
The buyer stated 'not as described', sent back part of the high value item in a tiny white envelope, eBay fully refunded them and I refused to pay eBay anything until the rest of the item was returned.
eBay is now a playground for scammers and I'm glad I'm out of it!!
ARE YOU LISTENING EBAY? GEORGE SAID “for 3 weeks in a row my vinted sales have been better than eBay sales”. EBAY, you gave us free fees for 3 months and we got a taste of how much extra money we make every month. If you don’t do something for business sellers, it’s only a matter of time before we shut down our eBay shop and move to vinted. The new policies eBay have introduced do nothing for business sellers, I see absolutely no improvement. COME ON EBAY, DO SOMETHING.
Yes - get out of the way eBay. Stop pretending to be an e-commerce platform.
Hang on a minute - you said that if they don't do anything for business sellers you will shut your shop but if you are a business how did you get free fees for 3 months?
As for the new policies, they do something for business sellers - they make it less attractive for unscrupulous businesses to pretend that they are private sellers in order to capitalise on no fees and undercut properly registered businesses. This helps even this out.
I don't really think ebay have the ability to weed out all of the fake private sellers, they're probably overwhelmed by the numbers, so the easiest way to weed them out is add a disadvantage so that they naturally either leave or register as a business.
@@PaulWK1972 used clothes were free to sell for business sellers too until the end of 2024.
@@PaulWK1972 don’t really care about the people trading on private accounts as it’s none of my business. All I care about is the fees I’m being charged by eBay. EBay gave clothing sellers free fees Oct-Dec and business boomed. It’s made us realise how much money eBay actually make in fees. Vinted is free fees for business sellers and more traffic.
@@PaulWK1972 that’s the thing though, I couldn’t care less about other sellers using a personal account to make business transactions. That’s their business and has nothing to do with me. I do care about the fees I’m being charged. I don’t know about you but as a business seller, eBay gave me free fees from oct - December. During that period I realised just how much eBay are charging me in fees. In December alone, without paying eBay fees I made an extra £1.3k. I buy the same stock every month, list the same amount of items every month and my sales are pretty much the same every month. So the point I am making is if I closed my eBay shop down and moved to vinted, I will probably make an extra £1.3k every month as they don’t charge fees. As per George, he has more sales on vinted than eBay so the traffic is there. That £1.3k extra works out at around £15.6k a year. I don’t know about you but and extra £15k a year in the pocket of a small business owner makes a big difference to quality of life.
As a private seller you only get 300 free listings a month.
As a private seller happy to pay a fixed fee of £5 to £10 a month for say 1000 listings to list I have even suggested that to eBay. Then they come out with 300 and this! Why do they have to copy vinted? It’s becoming so silly I am not listing anything else for now
Buyers are already protected on eBay! While I've no issue with them making this clearer/more obvious for buyers, perhaps drawing comparisons with Vinted's TERRIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE for buyers isn't the way forward. I am glad they have found a way to distinguish business sellers from private though...maybe the thought of those additional fees will send more customers our way George
Great video George 👍
I can only assume that have changed the payout after delivery to try and combat scam items, e.g the thousands of apple products which people list and sell as original which are blatantly fake.
This really puts an issue in for me for selling internationally though, items that can take 2/3 weeks to deliver meaning payouts would likely take up to a month sometimes.
If you read the full info, it does say that items sent using the global shipping programme will be paid when it it reaches the distribution centre.
But the global shipping programme is retarded.
Can't combine postage.
Costs a fortune.
They open the package and reseal it.
Since January 1, 2021, new tax regulations have been implemented in the UK, making it impossible to avoid taxes when selling on platforms like eBay. According to these regulations, eBay is a registered tax agent and is required to report all regular sellers and those with annual sales exceeding £1,000 to HMRC.
If a person sells frequently or on a regular basis, eBay automatically considers them a potential business and reports their sales data to HMRC. This applies to private sellers as well. Any sales exceeding the £1,000 threshold are reported to the tax authorities, even if the seller is not registered as a business. Failing to comply with these regulations can result in fines and other tax penalties.
Therefore, since 2021, avoiding taxes through eBay in the UK has become impossible. The platform tracks sellers' income and reports it to HMRC, making it impossible to hide sales and avoid paying taxes.
Im a private seller and have only got £10 payment in 2 weeks so hardly a high roller.
Try to sell expensive items as £1000-£10000 range.
The only way eBay will know if an item has been delivered will be for the seller to download/print a delivery slip with Tracking, no doubt that's going to cost so who pays for it...
I've Sold around 200 items on eBay privately over 8 years and i have a 100% record, this clearly means nothing to eBay..
I send my ebay items via 48 tracked service from the post office, i wonder how ebay will track the item? Perhaps we are to put the tracking number manually on ebay? 2 weeks a long time to wait for payment otherwise? Thanks
it'll be reliant on the postman scanning them, which in my experience is hit or miss
The end fee is a bit lower though than it was before, it varied by category but used to average out to aorund 13% fee last year, 4-5% isnt too bad, only issue is its been delivered in a very messy way.
1000 free listing for private sellers is gone now think its 300 now
yes 300
its 300 but you dont start off with 300 it can take months to build up to the free 300
@@UCVintageI think this is great change stops scams from new accounts been as big. I’m not massive maybe 500 sales when changes were made and I had 300 off the rip !
varys as to some even 300 free lists is more then enough, like i sell on & off and i dont sell anywhere near 300 items in year myself maybe 40 or less at most as i do odd clear out once in while but im not person who visit places often for bargains to sell on as daily task.
I dont have a pc just the app on my phone, dont know anything about coupons multi buys etcetera.
I’m an Australian seller and up until a month or so ago I was able to get on the phone with eBay 24 hours a day. They’ve since changed it to 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday but due to being on the “wrong” side of Australia it’s actually only until 3pm.
Really wish they would stop removing any small perk sellers have.
I called eBay 5 years ago and sold 28000 items since my last phone call.
As a business seller they say we can expect more exclusive benefits in the future ie more silly perks or ways for them to take more money of us when all we want are less fees and to be able to list more items for free in or shop subscription.
Yes - it always jam - tomorrow 👍
They should just just passed in the buyer protection fee for both private and business sellers but took away fees for business sellers as well. No need to take from already struggling businesses, they would also see an increase in business accounts. Then spend resources in tracking private account businesses simple.
would not work as Ebay has 3 types of people who sell on ebay. private,small business and high street (argos etc) problem is high street sellers like argos currys A.O. etc will sell on ebay with item that are the same price as their shops. By adding the buyer protection fee on high street prices. then these will be higher than their own brick and mator shops.
Great video mate keep up the good content. New sub here 🎉🎉
Private accounts are a stepping stone. Its intended to use until you are selling 1000 items a month.....we all have to start somewhere. You chose to start as a business by the sound of it. Other chose to build the business first then go all in.
The next step for you is brick and mortar.